Archaeology and History
Recent Submissions
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"A Perfect Paradise for Indians, Alligators, Serpents, Frogs": Reptiles and Florida in the Era of the Seminole Wars
(University of California Press, 24 April 2025)This article explores the cultural and environmental significance of reptiles – in particular, crocodilians and snakes – within U.S. accounts of Florida during the first half of the nineteenth century, with a specific case ... -
Where power lies - The archaeology of transforming elite centres in the landscape of Medieval England c.AD 800-1200
(Archaeopress, 3 December 2024)‘Where Power Lies: The Archaeology of Transforming Elite Centres in the Landscape of Medieval England c. AD 800-1200’ was a joint project between Newcastle University, the University of Exeter and the Portable Antiquities ... -
Where power lies: Lordly power centres in the English landscape c. 800–1200
(Cambridge University Press, 9 January 2025)Toward the end of the first millennium AD, a burgeoning class of secular elites emerged throughout western Europe who developed local power centres to denote their prestige. Seigneurial investment was prioritised towards ... -
Charting authority after Empire: Documentary culture and political legitimacy in post-Carolingian Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 2025)Imperial legacies are very much ‘in’. One cannot walk into a bookshop without being confronted by multiple titles on the subject. And in an age of culture wars, they regularly grace the pages of our broadsheets, often ... -
The children of Hambledon Hill: Tracing grief and community through osteological investigation of articulated human remains at Neolithic causewayed enclosures
(Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1 December 2024)Amidst the diversity of funerary practices seen in the British Neolithic, articulated burial stands out as unusual. As such, their analysis offers a rare insight into the lives and deaths of individuals. This article ...